skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, the "Shrinking Palestine" graphic is a famous example of misleading Arafat propaganda. The instance you linked displays 4 maps, ostensibly comparing the area of "Palestine" versus "Israel". Each map is wrong:

- 1918: At this time, there was no such thing as a state of Israel, nor had there there any administrative district named Palestine nor any Ottoman territory with borders like these. Instead, there was a British Mandate for Palestine. The British did not claim sovereignty but were instead the custodians assigned by the League of Nations to administer the land until sovereignty was established. A better map looks like this: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/images/mandate1.gif

- 1947: The map here describes the "displacement of Palestinian inhabitants". Ignoring the fact that the term Palestinian was used to describe the Jews at that time, there was no such phenomenon of "displacing Palestinian inhabitants" through 1947; the land transfers were all voluntary purchases. Furthermore, this map confusingly contrasts Jewish settlements with blue colored empty land, as if to suggest that were somehow Arab land. A better map would look like this: https://i.redd.it/1dn46n9vgmw41.png

- 1960: While this is the first map that depicts a sovereign Israel, it conveniently ignores _why_ any Arab inhabitants were displaced: after the UN approved a division of Palestine among Jews and Arabs, the Arabs started a war of annihilation against the Jews, but ultimately lost. Confusingly, this map does not depict the 156,000 Arabs that remained as Israeli citizens (other than perhaps some in the Galilee?).

- 2015: This map oversimplifies the complexities of the Oslo accords, painting Area C as if Israel claimed sovereignty over it (Israel does not), and continues to obscure the ~2 million Arabs living in the state of Israel.

If you would like a more accurate timeline of Palestinian territory, see her: https://aijac.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/mor-768x614....

Side note: I'm always curious what people mean when they say "Zionist" here. It would imply that you're not a Zionist, i.e. you don't believe the Jews are entitled to sovereignty. Either you support destroying the state of Israel, or you have a different definition of Zionist I don't understand.
I'm talking about it mostly from an entropy standpoint here. With larger size, you can represent more information.

Think of it like how you have a JPEG, you can compress it further and further, but eventually you lose the ability to understand the original image.

With the models, if they had infinite size, I imagine they could recall values in their training data extremely accurately. But as you compress down further and further to smaller and smaller models, you are trying to distil the same amount of information in less space, and so things cannot be perfectly recalled.

We have people tuning these smaller models to squeeze every ounce of what we consider meaningful out of them (passing certain benchmarks, seeming coherent in dialogue, etc), but in the process the things we don't tune them for, i.e. accurate recall of scripture (not that we should) they lose that ability.

I will say with all of that though, that I only have a high level understanding of LLMs, I've integrated them into products on the job, but I am by no means an ML engineer.
What are these dramatic sentences that people are supposedly serving for killing someone? Perhaps we can have Travis or Dara serve the same sentence that someone from their city, SF, who drives drunk across to the other side of the road and then kills a bicyclist: exactly nothing.

Or perhaps we should have them serve the same sentence as someone who takes a turn across a pedestrian walk signal and flattens a toddler and her father. No jail time? Community service?

What’s this idea that this is a crime in any sense? I’m sure Uber can hire someone to do community service per killed pedestrian. That does simplify matters.
Now, let's continue this line of thought. What if people die because your AI told you to not take action when you could have easily intervened to save a life?
Jimmy Carter helped avert nuclear disaster near Canada's capital
I didn't say it was an official patch.

Settler ambitions are real though:

Settlement movement for Southern Lebanon: https://jewishcurrents.org/inside-the-movement-to-settle-sou.... Unclear if this will happen, depends if Israel actually does withdraw fully or not.

Resettlement movement for Gaza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Israeli_resettlement_.... This is likely to happen on Trumps watch in Northern Gaza. The General's Plan is clearing out Northern Gaza of Arabs as we speak.

Permanent annexation of Golan Heights, and more land taken in Syria for the "foreseeable future": https://www.cbc.ca/news/israel-occupy-buffer-zone-syria-neta...
1925 was late to be predicting the escalator. Macy's in New York not only had escalators by then, they're still there and functioning. The first escalator dates back to the late 19th century. Moving sidewalks first appeared at the Paris Exposition in 1900, and that was probably the best implementation of the concept.

This article seems to be an ad for some genealogy service, picked up and copied into the Guardian as filler. It's a low point for a once renowned newspaper.
Believe it or not, things mattered before Youtube existed.
If you, as you are, were forced to go through puberty of the opposite sex as a child, would you have been ok with that? You could get into the trolley paradox of action vs inaction doing harm but really this is the same thing: do you force a person to go through the wrong puberty. The correct puberty isn’t damaging, the wrong one is.

As a cis man, I sure am happy nobody forced me to go through a female puberty.
Well yeah, if you're saying you can automate something, something as tractable as bookkeeping, then why would customers expect less quality? It should be perfect, and instant— that's the entire sales pitch of having a machine do it in the first place.

It might not be optimal, a human tax professional might be more creative and save you money, but it should always produce correct forms.
You think people in the hunter gatherer days lived a better more humane life? You walked too close to a branch and got a small cut and a few weeks later you are dead. Oh no, You fell and can't get up while a predator is chasing your group, better prepare to be eaten alive. You accidentally ate that one fruit that looks similar to another one, oops you die shitting your bowels out. What's that? You are getting your third child, too bad the other two died in child birth together with their mother.

I really don't think you realize how cushy modern life is compared to even the hardships of a few hundreds years ago.
They published schematics and the BIOS listing. If their plan was to stay closed they went about it in a peculiar way.
> Who a person follows is a pretty strong signal of their values

I strongly disagree, and believing this to be true is a problem for public discourse IMO.

What a person posts and who they repost is a strong signal of their values. I dislike/disagree with the validity of a social construct where people who choose to stay informed are assumed to hold values they do not.
Which command line script are u using that much other than curl/npm etc..

Thanks.
The base is clearly there to protect the US, not Denmark.
Any particular reason that Brainscan appears twice (at #33 and #57)?

FWIW, I haven't seen that one yet, but it's on my list of "movies to watch" and I think I'll be getting to it soon.
I've heard it said in relation to getting a new laptop with manufacturer cruft and using Dave's Boot And Nuke to do some cleanup: https://dban.org/
I remember reading a very solid article from the 90s by Imbrie (the father, not the son) about a global cooling model.
Why can't we train a model only on public domain materials and if anything is copyright only on materials where the rights-owners have granted permission?
They’re being attacked both for refusing to work with gangs or for working with a rival gang.
Dude, ignore these people.
HN has the weirdest bunch of computer nerds that hasn't taken a history class in their lives.

For everyone else, Singapore is important because it sits right at the end of the historical trade route of the Straits of Malacca. There is a whole wikipedia entry about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Malacca
Functional Programming Strategies (In Scala with Cats)
The first five chapters are unrelated to using the Cats library, and are an outstanding, illuminating introduction to how to think about FP in any language.
My FIL was stented and dead a week later from a massive clot which migrated post stent and blew his mind to pieces. It wasn't a good end. Stents are great and stents are also risky. It's the least worst choice sometimes.

Good to have a great outcome like this, happy 17th stent birthday.
Everyone already has it, the cost is just absorbed by the public instead of being taken out of the taxes of the person receiving the emergency care, assuming they can’t afford the hospital bill.
The value of private isn't as much that it can't be used against you; but that you don't have to bother with the cognitive load of sanitizing it.

I currently use a plugin that opens up a Daily Log each morning as I open my editor; and populates it with a template

ToDone:
*
ToDo:
*
Blockers:
*

First thing I try and do each morning as I catch up on email/overnight test results is fill it out as an outline of talking points before the daily Standup.

Throughout the day I try and keep a running list of task I work on down int he daily log; often with comments like 'why the everlovingfuck did jason delete the prod db' and a general summary of problems and how I solved (or didn't solve) them.

Outside of a personal knowledge database, when review time comes along it makes it much easier to summarize what I've worked on also.
I am specifically arguing that full time minimum wage jobs should allow you to live independently in what would currently be considered "normal". Sure, the definition of "normal" can change over time, just as the ownership and use of portable mobile computing devices or gigantic flat panel displays or cars have changed.

I also started out with a roommate when I had my first computing job, which was with a massive multinational. I could not have afforded my own apartment in Cambridge (UK), though that was caused by post-grad student debt than the salary level. I went on to rent a house with someone else until I emigrated to the US.

The fact that there are actually multiple pathways through life doesn't mean that we can't, as a society, draw up our own guidelines for what working for 40hrs a week ought to make possible, even if some people choose to (a) not work 40hrs a week (b) live differently.

Total government revenue as a percentage of GDP has been remarkably flat since the end of WWII (actually distressing to my preferred narrative in which it has declined and should not have).
> But not to discredit LS, it is an amazing software when you need it.

Yes! I perhaps didn't make this as clear as I should have. Little Snitch is fantastic software, no question. I'm just not sure that most people need it, I think a custom local firewall was always a bit of a power user tool, and nowadays with security being so much better than 20+ years ago, firewalls on personal machines just feel like an outdated concept to me.
Minimal, but there were some changes a few years ago that made it harder to monitor and block system traffic. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816
> I'm surprised to see such conspiracy theories favored by the likes of Osama Bin Laden and Yasser Arafat like "Greater Israel" trumpeted on Hacker News.

I read about it primarily in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz. Here are a few recent articles on the topic, no need to read Osama Bin Laden or Yassar Arafat:

"Trump's Return Is a Victory for Greater Israel, Annexation and Apartheid"

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-10/ty-article/.p...

"From Mount Hermon's Peaks, Netanyahu Plots His Vision of a Greater Israel"

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-11/ty-article/.p...

"The Greater Israel Ideology of Bezalel Smotrich Has Already Lost"

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-02-04/ty-article-opinio...

Or you can read the Times of Israel.

"The wind is at their backs. Activists screaming for a Greater Israel want the government to annex Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has published the manifesto."

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/annexation-now-is-not-the-ti...

Saying that I cannot discuss Great Israel when it is a common topic in the Israeli press is just weird and strange gatekeeping.
That's not a serious issue and, going by US law at least, you're never obligated to intervene to save someone unless you created the situation that threatened them, have a specific special relationship with that person (i.e. parent), or have accepted a role where duty to rescue is part of your obligations (i.e. firefighter).

As an uninvolved third party witnessing some harm you will face no penalty for not intervening.

It is, of course, encouraged to intervene and laws have been written to ensure that a reasonable effort to intervene won't cause you legal issues but you are never obligated to do so.
Also, because it's just worth noting anyway:

> That's Safari in a trenchcoat.

Then so is Chrome, or, where do you draw the line? WebKit bad, Gecko good? Why? Blink is a fork of WebKit. Ultimately who cares which JIT-enabled browser engine runs your JS?
Slopify – The Ideomotor Effect of Software
OP here, I run a computer shop that handles consumer computers. People bring me machines they purchased from electronics store. So i have to mainly contend with what is out there. I looked into getting into a partnership with a reseller, but since I dont really have much revenue it always seems like a zero sum game. Sometimes customers want me to purchase laptops for them, and this particular model I had trouble with was one of them. I'll admit I'm not very versed in areas I should be focusing on if I need to purchase OEM products because I am mostly a system builder for gamers. If anyone has any recommendations for getting system licensing and hardware from 3rd parties that's not to much of a upfront expense, I'm all ears.
Source: https://github.com/dishpitdev/slopify

Context: https://www.newmanmentalism.com/blog/a-mentalist-explains-ho...
> I'm still stunned that anyone voted "leave". Even if you were strongly in favor of leaving the EU that particular referendum was terrible.

Politics is the art of the possible. The referendum was a once-in-a-generation chance to leave, voting for it was smart. If remain had won there's no way we would have left on any terms, nor reformed our relationship with the EU at all; quite the contrary.
Far from being an original line of inquiry, this is covered by the legal concept of Duty to Rescue. Short story is it differs by country, but generally you're not required to save someone's life. In some places you are required to at least contact authorities or emergency services if able.
Not to me. I did not consider the situation of employed people who still had to pay for their own insurance in my initial response.
I'm angling more towards health care and less towards good samaritans.
absolutely agreed

+ most of my inclusion in these blocklists is due to actions taken by someone i follow after i followed them (some AI person I followed who posted bluesky posts on huggingface). it really is ridiculous to read a follow as an endorsement

i think this is more of a cultural issue with bluesky than a technical issue/flaw
> In many ways it actually preserves local (and also regional) cultures

That really conflicts with the "Freedom of movement for workers".

Cultures can not be preserved if people freely move between regions.
Posted 4 hours ago (4 points, no comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42544264
> Not impressed.

So Apple kneecaps Meta's cross-app advertising, something that literally makes them no direct revenue to implement, and protects users (it famously reduced Facebook cross-app analytics traffic to a significant degree), and you think this is business as usual?

Then you should reconsider my comment at the top of this thread, because it is 100% speaking to this exact phenomenon.
Windows hasn't needed it either for a long time.
Opt in works great, pop-up dialogues do not.
You do realize that most of the West Bank, if not all of it, will be annexed during the Trump administration right? And probably half of Gaza will be annexed as well. It is the end of any two-state solution. Not clear what will happen to the Palestinians there, but it probably won't be great for them.

Huckabee, the new US ambassador to Israel, supports both policies per:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-ambassador-pick-huckabee...
This kind of work, collecting meta-data, mediating queries, altering a relational database processing language, on a DNS server through a Matching Code ID on Little Snitch is freakishly effective at times.
You are asking a question of science fiction.

It is impossible for anyone to undergo the puberty of the opposite sex because, obviously, they are not of that sex.

As you are male, there is no method by which you could have gone through female puberty. So your hypothetical of this being forced upon you is nonsense.
This is good advise. And if you don’t have this, just be the one to initiate.

About 7 years ago one of my college friends drunkenly made a slack group for us all. At the time we were about a decade out of college and have been friends since freshman year. The slack group has been going strong since.

There are times where it goes quiet for a while, then one message will fire it back up. And it’s cool to see it evolve where now we talk about house projects, family things, etc.

We also use it to coordinate times to hang out which e great since we live in different cities.

I also have some WhatsApp groups from other periods of life, but just mentioning the Slack group because it’s something I wouldn’t have thought of and has really helped maintain our connection 20 years after we all met.
OP here, is OpenCompute mostly for server grade hardware? I feel like the enthusisant marketing is being left behind by all these solutions that the average computer user doesn't need.
can't someone just stand up another atproto AppView with different default feeds to solve this problem?

BlueSky's moderation team has traditional Twitter-like biases but my understanding of the AT protocol, from reading the spec, is that they do not have a monopoly on moderation in the AT network.
Nope, just human error :( I'll fix it.

These aren't in a serious order, just kind of ordered them how I felt at the time. It's rated somewhat as how good it is compared to how unknown or underrated it is. Some are so obscure (like "Come True") and they are so good for their budget.

That movie amazes me for what the internet says the budget is, anyway.
Not prohibit training, but make it illegal for US companies to embed, use or distribute LLMs created by China. Basically the general consumer will need to go through the effort of use the LLM that they want, which we know means only a small fraction of people.
We are one country, Europe is an entire continent of countries. You would think there would be one that would want my money.
Selection of metal, lamination, presence of a ura (裏), handle material, the ability to make a new handle and attach it to the original metal. A metal chosen for an extreme sharpness may be terribly difficult to sharpen, a metal easy to sharpen may not hold an edge for long.
Trump and his supporters don't care about legalities. The only question is what they can get away with.
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/embed/5b91607c-93df-4e7c-92...
The navel gazing about AI is a stupid angle. It sounds like a typical corporate tale of the untouchable new boss who has determined that the software he brought in is infallible, “emperor has no clothes” style.

The real story is that they formulated a much higher acceptable ratio of collateral deaths and changed the internal processes to make it impossible to escalate problems. To the point that they allowed Israel to be attacked because nobody could report what they saw up the chain of command.

End of the day, if I’m allowed to blow up a crowd to kill one dude, more people are gonna die. The AI angle is a volume knob.

Unasked questions are:

Who exactly demanded the higher target count?

Did the flooding of the combat arms teams with targets allow important targets to escape?

Did this program advance the goals of executing a war? Or did it cause a needless war? Or did it primarily serve a political purpose?
There is a filter type device for use indoors but it is standalone.
Most factory chisels are not laminations like hand made Japanese ones are. They are just a single alloy.
What exactly does one learn from this normally? A leftover daemon is a bit of an edge case, and you could have learnt the same from looking at Activity Monitor, seeing a permissions pop-up, noticing higher energy use, etc, but learning that software connects to China seems... fine? Unless one wants to classify all connections to China as by-definition bad, which is discrimination that I don't want to engage in personally.

A bad actor can conceal whatever they want by renting a server anywhere they like. Meanwhile, there are many legit reasons why software might connect to China – maybe the company hosts services on Alibaba Cloud, maybe the software is from a Chinese producer and they chose local hosting.

To me, the map is mostly fear-mongering.
Interesting that the embed doesn't load but the URL in the embed does: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/embed/5b91607c-93df-4e7c-92...
the most interesting part is the last tidbit at the end: even self censorship is laxer on TikTok
Israel used ML to generate targets for its genocide in Gaza.

Fixed the title, given that it's so "off the mark", to use the IDF's words. Let's break it down.

AI to generate targets:

To maintain the war’s breakneck pace, the IDF turned to an elaborate artificial intelligence [...] which could quickly generate hundreds of additional targets.

Flawed since any engineer reading these knows how inaccurate these can be. Imagine killing people based on those predictions.

Reviewing reams of data from intercepted communications, satellite footage, and social networks, the algorithms spit out the coordinates of tunnels, rockets, and other military targets. Recommendations that survive vetting by an intelligence analyst are placed in the target bank by a senior officer.

Another machine learning tool, called Lavender, uses a percentage score to predict how likely a Palestinian is to be a member of a militant group, allowing the IDF to quickly generate a large volume of potential human targets. Other algorithmic programs have names like Alchemist, Depth of Wisdom, Hunter and Flow, the latter of which allows soldiers to query various datasets and is previously unreported.

Genocide since:

Genocide charges against Israel brought to The Hague by South Africa question whether crucial decisions about bombing targets in Gaza were made by software, an investigation that could hasten a global debate about the role of AI technology in warfare.
I'm not sure causation is proven. We have openly contemptuous elitism and we have Trump. Not necessarily cause and effect.
ZFS checksum flaw: Corruption may be left unnoticed
harder in practice because many large instances block single user instances because abuse was an afterthought to the activitypub designers.

Also, if you want to operate a home server, you also have to be willing to have a public file upload endpoint capable of receiving and storing arbitrary data on your server (because that's how ActivityPub works), and people send your server a lot of data, and a lot of that data will be extremely unsavory, and it will be your responsibility to make sure you remove anything illegal that someone on another server uploads to yours.

I wasn't willing to take that risk, myself.